Looks great! Rabbits ate all my spring garden, then the back up plants.

Yours looks delicious.
what no rabbits in
grove or just good fence?

Carol, you have more restraint than I do. I start picking individual leaves of lettuce, spinach, arugula at a size even smaller than you have and mix it with nasty old iceberg lettuce. I would throw in a couple green onions that size too. In fact did that for the first time today. And my stuff is not as big as yours. We've been drier than you and hotter too I think and I just can't seem to keep enough water on it to make it grow good.

Dorothy my restraint ended tonight and I went out and picked a handful of mixed greens and we put them on our sandwiches. I don't normally cook on Sunday so it is a 'help yourself to the leftovers kind of day'. My DH was making noises about having green onions and I told him he wasn't pulling the bulbing onions for that. LOL I bought a couple of packages of sets and we planted those for green onions, but they are still pretty small. I have a lot of walking onions and he can pull those anytime.

Seeker - I'm sure Grove has rabbits but I never see one in my neighborhood. We have a family of red fox that live in the wooded area that begins about a block from our house and they run the neighborhood at night. In addition, there are a lot of dogs and cats around. When I first moved here I saw rabbits a lot, but I probably haven't seen one in the last five years. Yes, I have a chain link fence that has 2 feet of chicken wire around the bottom half. The gates are not totally animal proof anymore and need to be beefed up again, but I don't have a rabbit problem. I have seen fox tracks and run neighborhood cats out, and I know I have a possum sometimes, but that is all except for the danged squirrels. Even the squirrels are not as plentiful as they were a few years ago.

I think we have only had about 8 inches of rain this year, but it has just all come around gardening time. My peas have grown very slowly and would be helped along if we had a few more sunny days I think. I have four kinds and they all look healthy but they sure haven't grown much.

What you see in the picture above is the south side of my garden and it is higher and drains better. The north side has a few raised beds plus the ground area that will get the peppers and most of the tomatoes. As you can see in the picture I had the flower pots still in the garden that I had used to cover plants, but they have now been removed. I left them close to the plants for a couple of days in case I needed to do another quick cover-up.

The biggest job that I have left to do is mulch. I didn't save as many leaves as I usually do so I'm not sure what I will use for all of it. I have lots of cardboard if I can find something to go over them. I wish it was already in place because it cuts down on the soil splash.

I took a few of the potatoes I raised last year and planted them in a large pot this year. This is what they look like. After I loaded the pic I saw that my little poodle was in the picture also.

Carol, that is such a beautiful garden. I wish mine looked that tidy. My plants look pretty good, but very sloppy layout. I have eaten broccoli, and lettuce, could have been eating onions, I did not plant any greens.

We have been much drier this year but have still not suffered like a lot of the others on the forum. I live in a low area and dry out later than others.

Larry

Thanks Larry. You are only seeing a portion of it and it is early in the season. It will get crowded and probably messy looking before the season ends. I have a friend that moved here a couple of years ago from California -- a bank President, not a gardener. Last year she wanted to see my garden and thought it was so nice. About a month later she came back and stepped outside and her mouth fell open and her eyes got big and she couldn't believe it was the same place. She never knew that veggies changed so much so quickly. The next month she was out there picking peppers for her freezer.

My husband complained last year that I had the peppers too close together and they were hard to pick. He has already mentioned that this year and they aren't even in the garden yet. LOL If I didn't have to cage them I could squeeze more in, but they get too heavy without cages and just fall over.

I get carried away, and I always plant things too close. We made some changes this spring and I gained a space about 10x20 that I haven't had before. It would have been more but there is a tree on that end of the garden. On the other end I changed a pathway and re-routed it by placing a paver walkway behind a tall trellis instead of in front of it and gained several feet of planting space on that end also. I have now taken all of the space behind the fence that was once a backyard. LOL I probably would take some of the side yard also if it didn't have a septic system and so many trees. I usually do slip a few container plants into the sunny places tho. I spent most of my life in a government office either in front of a computer as a analyst or as a buyer with a phone to my ear, so being outside is heavenly to me. I don't plant as many things as Dawn and Jay, but I do have a nice size garden.

I thought your garden was fantastic last year and my flowers are never as pretty as yours. You have just had a lot going on in your life this gardening season.

Oh, good grief, that makes me hungry!!!! My lettuces are just now beginning to sprout and I can't wait. I love salads!

I need to just face the fact that I'm going to be forever jealous of you all being well ahead of me now. *sob*

Diane